I wouldn't call Toy Story 2 anime...it's wholy computer generated, the style isn't anime style.
Nobody was calling "Toy Story 2" anime. The original poster was making the claim that the anime style of showing sadness with "pulsating eyes" was more evocative than "traditional animation". I believe "Toy Story 2" is clearly based on traditional Western animation. It speaks to everyone, rather than to a few people who know the visual "language".
Second, Anime tends to be able to beter portray emotion, action, and other concepts than traditional animation. I've yet to see a more subtle, or more recognisable depicion of emotion than the simple "pulsating eyes" trick done in anime to show sadness.
You're kidding, right? Please, say you're kidding. Either that, or you've never seen "Toy Story 2" and have never heard of "Jessie" and never experienced the utterly heartbreaking animation of the conclusion of the song "When Somebody Loved Me". So, just in case you've never seen it (and I have to assume you never have) "sadness" is shown via utterly brilliant animation and acting. No "pulsating eyes" anywhere. I can't even think about the scene without getting goosebumps.
Look, maybe it's like Japanese theater or opera, and once you know the visual language it can move you. But to most of us, "pulsating eyes" just look like eyes...pulsating. Western viewers rely on things like body language and vocal talent (from the commentary, Joan Cusack was crying during the recording...as were the directors).
I have a DirecTivo, and love it. I couldn't imagine life without it. Recently, I got a letter from DirecTV that from now on, my DirecTivo service was going to be referred to as "DirecTV PVR" and the monthly charge was going to be cut in half.
OK. The service hasn't changed. It's still Tivo software and interface. The monthly cost is half of what it was. The only down side is it records more "Special Preview" nonsense from DirecTV. Tivo still gets paid, and DirecTV has more reason to sell this great technology. What's the problem supposed to be?
The very first underground train in New York worked exactly like this, pneumatically. Everything old is new again, eh?
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Ever since Symantec bought Ghost, they've been changing it from a simple, easy to use, small, beautiful and most of all SMALL utility to a typical bloated pile of junk. It's so nice to see someone develop an open and free version that recaptures the original idea - just copy the fricken hard disk already!
Usually when a web developer (including me) develops a flash site they develop an HTML version of that site for non-browsers.
The problem with that approach is that you then have two different sites to update and maintain. Guess which one will fall behind?
"Separate but Equal" was a bad idea below the Mason-Dixon line in the 1960s, it's a bad idea on the web.
So if I were blind I just don't install Flash and I am all set.
Not the case with the vast majority of web sites, and sorry, but I don't think it is likely to be true with your site either. Post the URL and let us try it with Lynx.
Besides, except for those sites that specifically feature animation, most visitors don't really want to see Flash. Be honest with yourself. Do some analysis of your logs and see how many people enter your sites from a page after your Flash intro page. The most popular button on most Flashed web pages is the "skip intro" button.
How practical or common is it for an artist to retain copyright to their own material?
There are only three groups of musicians who have copyright to their own material:
Those who have fought in the courts for years to re-gain ownership - Frank Zappa, for example
Those who have managed to succeed at such a level that they have managed to negotiate a new contract in their favor - suggestions?
Those who somehow managed to have a hit record before they had a record contract - Kate Bush is the only one I can think of in this catagory
The real "gotcha", as Steve Albini pointed out, is not the contract, but the deal memo that obligates the band or artist to sign the contract the label eventually offers.
When I was doing some part-time work crewing for a "sound reinforcment" firm, I could never remember which way round the XLR connectors went.
I did sound on a touring edition of a broadway show back in the early 1980s. The system supplier was Masque Sound, who did most of the shows on Broadway. The bad habits of the stagehands forced the companies to do things a bit differently -
Every single XLR cable was female - on both ends. Every XLR panel connector was male.
The reason was that the stagehands insisted on pulling cables out by the cord. Apparently, pressing the little tab was too much work. Masque found that the female XLR would be the one to break, so they used females only on cables, because they were easier to repair. They would go through and replace every female XLR on every a 32 channel mixing board.
Even more bizzarely, they used 2 prong polarized AC cords for speaker connectors. The speaker cabinets had duplex outlets on the back.
I take it you've never needed to reach under a desk to plug a computer into a power strip that you can't see? Try it sometime. You can do it safely with a UK plug.
I've delt with a lot of different electrical standards, and no, I'm not impressed with US standards. For instance, US explosion-risk standards are a joke compared to Australian ones. US standards are just metal to metal mating, while Aus ones have gaskets and all conduits and boxes are pressurized with nitrogen, making sparking impossible.
I guess making snarky comments is easier when you don't have any actual experience with the subject being discussed.
The UK AC plugs may be large, but they are safe, which is a lot more than I can say for the horrible US AC plug design. I visited the UK last year with a bunch of US multi-voltage video equipment. My British hosts were stunned at how bad the US plug design was, and how easy it would be to shock yourself as you inserted or removed one. The hot blade is exposed with AC power on it - if your finger should slip, you get zapped.
The UK plug design is plastic along the length of the blade, and only the end is metal. By the time you see the metal tip of the blades, the circuit is already broken.
This one has been debated for years, and was a thread in the letters column of an IEEE magazine. One claimant named Robert who worked for Amphenol said he designed it on his kitchen with his wife said they dubbed it "B.N.C." for "Bob and Nancy's Connector".
Most of the ones like "Bayonet Nut Connector" and "British Nautical Connector" were proven to be retcons - for instance, it was manufactured in the US long before there were any British manufacturers.
My wife is a wonderful woman, but has a phobia about cast iron pans. I cannot seem to convince her to let a cast iron pan "season" like it is supposed to. I scrub it out with kosher salt as you are supposed to, but she insists on putting that sucker in the sink and scrubbing it with a Brillo pad to get it "clean"...totally ruining the seasoning.
What can you say to her to convince her that a well-seasoned cast iron frying pan is healthy?
I have a High-Definition system and love it, but there's one thing missing - an HD cooking show. You really seem to be into having a show that looks different than all the other cooking shows. Any possibility of making at least one demo show in HD? Marc Cuban's HD-NET would show it.
Janis is also very right in saying that the way that the industry is set up is old, based off a model from the 30's and 40's. We don't use any other markets in the same way that we did in the 30's and 40's, so why should we for music and entertainment.
They are still deducting 10% from the artists royalties for shellac breakage. Yep, 10% for all those shattered 78 RPM records. That something like this is still a part of standard industry contracts is just obscene.
Prior to "Good Eats", the geekiest cooking show on the Food Network was "Taste" with David Rosengarten. He concentrated on techniques and each show would feature a single dish. The best ones would feature a dish, and all the wrong ways people make it. "Here's what NOT to do". The scrambled egg examples were every bad breakfast you'd ever eaten. His three different scrambled egg recipes were amazing.
"Good Eats" is great, but I wish "Taste" would come back.
Cameron was the most visible co-owner of Digital Domain, but he was actually a junior partner. WETA is, as far as I know, owned by Peter Jackson. He has a slate of films ready to roll. He doesn't have the dependence on "stars" like Arnie that Cameron has. He's on the opposite side of the world from Hollywood, and has produced a very profitable film. He has more freedom to make any film he likes than any other film-maker in years.
Peter, who started working on effects in his mother's kitchen will be making use of this new toy for quite some time.
Her column on the "Monumental Mistakes" she has made in her career is amazing. She talks about taking drugs with Jimi Hendrix, turning down the opportunity to play Woodstock, was offered Rhea Perlman's part on "Cheers"...
Is she curently famous? Nope. But she was very famous at several different points in her career and will make one hell of a "Behind The Music".
By the way, read her article about her stolen guitar for a deeply moving story that will reassure you that there are decent humans on the planet.
As they kill those services that have any sort of control mechanism in place, all that will remain is those services that they can't control, which are precisely those services which can't be used to make money for the publishing industry. What may have taken a decade of evolution from central-controlled P2P to fully-distributed P2P is being encouraged to take place in a couple of years.
Hilarious, isn't it? This is exactly like those Soccer Moms who wipe every surface with low-grade antibiotics and insist the doctor give their rugrat antibiotics for their every cold. It's utterly useless, and the only result is to produce stronger and tougher viri.
They killed Napster, which allowed them to see what music millions of people collected. They just killed AudioGalaxy which gave them the same information. Any businessman with a fractional clue could have figured out how to use that information to build a profitable business. Now, they've lost the potential for getting any information at all.
One wonders if that might be one of the hidden motivations of RIAA other than simple pirating.
Yes.
I just did some searches for indie artists that I know personally. Every single one of their songs is no longer downloadable.
This is not about "saving" RIAA artists. This is about trying to cripple those outside of their member companies.
This is utterly insane. There is music produced by people who are no longer alive and is out of copyright. Who is going to write to Audiogalaxy authorize their music?
If you see banding and noise in dark areas, your set is misadjusted. Buy or rent a copy of Avia Guide to Home Theater and learn how to properly set brightness and contrast. Once you do, you'll be able to see detail in dark areas, but not noise. DVDs look wonderful on a properly calibrated display, but the MPEG encoders don't worry about artifacts hidden in the very darkest areas.
The large theater systems from Christie and Barco and the very largest home and business DLP projectors use three DLPs. Most home and small business DLP projectors use a single DLP chip and a rotating color wheel. Personally, the technology behind DLP, an array of mirrors, is more impressive than a single moving mirror.
Coincidentially, TI's design is the result of their attempts to create exactly the single-mirror type of system described. They gave up on that approach because of what they learned about physical behavior at the nano-level. The mirrors tended to stick on one position or the other. So they turned that from a liability to a virtue. Instead of trying to directly analog modulate the light, they decided to use time modulation.
DLP is no less cool because it actually exists, and is in use in thousands of projectors.
Coming? It's already here. What he's calling by the generic name MEMS, Texas Insturments calls by their trade name DLP (Digital Light Processing). It's all over the place, expecially the digital presentations of "Star Wars, Part 2: Attack of the Clones". Not mentioning the most successful current MEMS technology really costs him some credibility.
Didn't the record companies say the same thing about audio tape?
Audio tape? Hell, they said the same thing about radio, and sued to stop radio broadcasters.
The said the same thing about imported LPs, DAT, used CDs, anything they could find to lay blame on to explain a temporary downturn in revenue. Increases in revenue are, of course, entirely due to their own brilliance.
This is about what it always about - the lobbyist's desire to get the government to give their industry a handout. They used the introduction of DAT to get a tax passed on the units and blank tapes. As musicians and Deadheads are virtually the only people who buy DATs (other than data DATS for backup), they have been paying a tax that it delivered directly to the members of the RIAA.
Forget welfare to the poor. It is dwarfed by Corporate Welfare.
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Nobody was calling "Toy Story 2" anime. The original poster was making the claim that the anime style of showing sadness with "pulsating eyes" was more evocative than "traditional animation". I believe "Toy Story 2" is clearly based on traditional Western animation. It speaks to everyone, rather than to a few people who know the visual "language".
You're kidding, right? Please, say you're kidding. Either that, or you've never seen "Toy Story 2" and have never heard of "Jessie" and never experienced the utterly heartbreaking animation of the conclusion of the song "When Somebody Loved Me". So, just in case you've never seen it (and I have to assume you never have) "sadness" is shown via utterly brilliant animation and acting. No "pulsating eyes" anywhere. I can't even think about the scene without getting goosebumps. Look, maybe it's like Japanese theater or opera, and once you know the visual language it can move you. But to most of us, "pulsating eyes" just look like eyes...pulsating. Western viewers rely on things like body language and vocal talent (from the commentary, Joan Cusack was crying during the recording...as were the directors).
I have a DirecTivo, and love it. I couldn't imagine life without it. Recently, I got a letter from DirecTV that from now on, my DirecTivo service was going to be referred to as "DirecTV PVR" and the monthly charge was going to be cut in half.
OK. The service hasn't changed. It's still Tivo software and interface. The monthly cost is half of what it was. The only down side is it records more "Special Preview" nonsense from DirecTV. Tivo still gets paid, and DirecTV has more reason to sell this great technology. What's the problem supposed to be?
The very first underground train in New York worked exactly like this, pneumatically. Everything old is new again, eh?
Ever since Symantec bought Ghost, they've been changing it from a simple, easy to use, small, beautiful and most of all SMALL utility to a typical bloated pile of junk. It's so nice to see someone develop an open and free version that recaptures the original idea - just copy the fricken hard disk already!
The problem with that approach is that you then have two different sites to update and maintain. Guess which one will fall behind?
"Separate but Equal" was a bad idea below the Mason-Dixon line in the 1960s, it's a bad idea on the web.
Not the case with the vast majority of web sites, and sorry, but I don't think it is likely to be true with your site either. Post the URL and let us try it with Lynx.Besides, except for those sites that specifically feature animation, most visitors don't really want to see Flash. Be honest with yourself. Do some analysis of your logs and see how many people enter your sites from a page after your Flash intro page. The most popular button on most Flashed web pages is the "skip intro" button.
There are only three groups of musicians who have copyright to their own material:
The real "gotcha", as Steve Albini pointed out, is not the contract, but the deal memo that obligates the band or artist to sign the contract the label eventually offers.
I did sound on a touring edition of a broadway show back in the early 1980s. The system supplier was Masque Sound, who did most of the shows on Broadway. The bad habits of the stagehands forced the companies to do things a bit differently -
Every single XLR cable was female - on both ends. Every XLR panel connector was male.
The reason was that the stagehands insisted on pulling cables out by the cord. Apparently, pressing the little tab was too much work. Masque found that the female XLR would be the one to break, so they used females only on cables, because they were easier to repair. They would go through and replace every female XLR on every a 32 channel mixing board.
Even more bizzarely, they used 2 prong polarized AC cords for speaker connectors. The speaker cabinets had duplex outlets on the back.
I take it you've never needed to reach under a desk to plug a computer into a power strip that you can't see? Try it sometime. You can do it safely with a UK plug.
I've delt with a lot of different electrical standards, and no, I'm not impressed with US standards. For instance, US explosion-risk standards are a joke compared to Australian ones. US standards are just metal to metal mating, while Aus ones have gaskets and all conduits and boxes are pressurized with nitrogen, making sparking impossible.
I guess making snarky comments is easier when you don't have any actual experience with the subject being discussed.
The UK AC plugs may be large, but they are safe, which is a lot more than I can say for the horrible US AC plug design. I visited the UK last year with a bunch of US multi-voltage video equipment. My British hosts were stunned at how bad the US plug design was, and how easy it would be to shock yourself as you inserted or removed one. The hot blade is exposed with AC power on it - if your finger should slip, you get zapped.
The UK plug design is plastic along the length of the blade, and only the end is metal. By the time you see the metal tip of the blades, the circuit is already broken.
The real mystery is why a female panel connector is called a "jack".
I remember being embarrassed the first time I had to explain the difference between "male" and "female" connectors when I was in high school.
This one has been debated for years, and was a thread in the letters column of an IEEE magazine. One claimant named Robert who worked for Amphenol said he designed it on his kitchen with his wife said they dubbed it "B.N.C." for "Bob and Nancy's Connector".
Most of the ones like "Bayonet Nut Connector" and "British Nautical Connector" were proven to be retcons - for instance, it was manufactured in the US long before there were any British manufacturers.
My wife is a wonderful woman, but has a phobia about cast iron pans. I cannot seem to convince her to let a cast iron pan "season" like it is supposed to. I scrub it out with kosher salt as you are supposed to, but she insists on putting that sucker in the sink and scrubbing it with a Brillo pad to get it "clean"...totally ruining the seasoning.
What can you say to her to convince her that a well-seasoned cast iron frying pan is healthy?
I have a High-Definition system and love it, but there's one thing missing - an HD cooking show. You really seem to be into having a show that looks different than all the other cooking shows. Any possibility of making at least one demo show in HD? Marc Cuban's HD-NET would show it.
They are still deducting 10% from the artists royalties for shellac breakage. Yep, 10% for all those shattered 78 RPM records. That something like this is still a part of standard industry contracts is just obscene.
Prior to "Good Eats", the geekiest cooking show on the Food Network was "Taste" with David Rosengarten. He concentrated on techniques and each show would feature a single dish. The best ones would feature a dish, and all the wrong ways people make it. "Here's what NOT to do". The scrambled egg examples were every bad breakfast you'd ever eaten. His three different scrambled egg recipes were amazing.
"Good Eats" is great, but I wish "Taste" would come back.
Cameron was the most visible co-owner of Digital Domain, but he was actually a junior partner. WETA is, as far as I know, owned by Peter Jackson. He has a slate of films ready to roll. He doesn't have the dependence on "stars" like Arnie that Cameron has. He's on the opposite side of the world from Hollywood, and has produced a very profitable film. He has more freedom to make any film he likes than any other film-maker in years.
Peter, who started working on effects in his mother's kitchen will be making use of this new toy for quite some time.
Yes, famous.
Her column on the "Monumental Mistakes" she has made in her career is amazing. She talks about taking drugs with Jimi Hendrix, turning down the opportunity to play Woodstock, was offered Rhea Perlman's part on "Cheers"...
Is she curently famous? Nope. But she was very famous at several different points in her career and will make one hell of a "Behind The Music".
By the way, read her article about her stolen guitar for a deeply moving story that will reassure you that there are decent humans on the planet.
Hilarious, isn't it? This is exactly like those Soccer Moms who wipe every surface with low-grade antibiotics and insist the doctor give their rugrat antibiotics for their every cold. It's utterly useless, and the only result is to produce stronger and tougher viri.
They killed Napster, which allowed them to see what music millions of people collected. They just killed AudioGalaxy which gave them the same information. Any businessman with a fractional clue could have figured out how to use that information to build a profitable business. Now, they've lost the potential for getting any information at all.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Yes.
I just did some searches for indie artists that I know personally. Every single one of their songs is no longer downloadable.
This is not about "saving" RIAA artists. This is about trying to cripple those outside of their member companies.
This is utterly insane. There is music produced by people who are no longer alive and is out of copyright. Who is going to write to Audiogalaxy authorize their music?
"Shut up kid, and buy what we want to sell you!
The Christie Digital display uses 15 bit per channel color, for 4.4 trillion colors. That is enough.
If you see banding and noise in dark areas, your set is misadjusted. Buy or rent a copy of Avia Guide to Home Theater and learn how to properly set brightness and contrast. Once you do, you'll be able to see detail in dark areas, but not noise. DVDs look wonderful on a properly calibrated display, but the MPEG encoders don't worry about artifacts hidden in the very darkest areas.
The large theater systems from Christie and Barco and the very largest home and business DLP projectors use three DLPs. Most home and small business DLP projectors use a single DLP chip and a rotating color wheel. Personally, the technology behind DLP, an array of mirrors, is more impressive than a single moving mirror.
Coincidentially, TI's design is the result of their attempts to create exactly the single-mirror type of system described. They gave up on that approach because of what they learned about physical behavior at the nano-level. The mirrors tended to stick on one position or the other. So they turned that from a liability to a virtue. Instead of trying to directly analog modulate the light, they decided to use time modulation.
DLP is no less cool because it actually exists, and is in use in thousands of projectors.
Coming? It's already here. What he's calling by the generic name MEMS, Texas Insturments calls by their trade name DLP (Digital Light Processing). It's all over the place, expecially the digital presentations of "Star Wars, Part 2: Attack of the Clones". Not mentioning the most successful current MEMS technology really costs him some credibility.
Audio tape? Hell, they said the same thing about radio, and sued to stop radio broadcasters.
The said the same thing about imported LPs, DAT, used CDs, anything they could find to lay blame on to explain a temporary downturn in revenue. Increases in revenue are, of course, entirely due to their own brilliance.
This is about what it always about - the lobbyist's desire to get the government to give their industry a handout. They used the introduction of DAT to get a tax passed on the units and blank tapes. As musicians and Deadheads are virtually the only people who buy DATs (other than data DATS for backup), they have been paying a tax that it delivered directly to the members of the RIAA.
Forget welfare to the poor. It is dwarfed by Corporate Welfare.